I would like to reduce the opacity value for Spun since it does not display well in Firefox and on older monitors. I am confused by how to get to the point where I can change the code. It looks like a child theme is the way to go, but the instructions given by WP to do so are not absolutely clear to me. Do I have to download WP to my hard drive and create the child theme there? I built my site and chose Spun without downloading anything to my hard drive, so the process would be new to me. Biggest fear, of course, is jacking up the site in its current state as I try to improve it. I thus hesitate to assume too much. Thank you!

Thanks. Good to know. I ran into problems with the first link’s instructions. When I put my website’s url followed by wp-content/themes, I got a blank webpage. That’s what led me to think I had to do it on my hard drive. I’ll have a look at that second link now and let you know how it goes.

Is there any danger of Orbisius crashing a site based on Spun? It looks user-friendly and I would like to proceed, but he provides quite the warning. By checking the CopyFunction.php box that he provides, am I safe? Forgive me being over-cautious here. I have had a tendency in the past to make things worse while trying to make them better! 🙂

I am the creator of Orbisius Child Theme Creator.
The latest version of the plugin features Theme Editor (ajax and available under Appearance) which allows you to edit 2 theme files at the same time.
Therefore you don’t need to use FTP client … of course if the hosting is good.

I’ve seen some plesk hostings which the files don’t have the right permissions in that case you’ll need to use FTP

Thanks for participating in this. FYI, when I used your plug-in to create a child theme and then activated it, the entire site went white (fatal error). This happened even after I tested with a Sandbox site. My web hosting company’s tech support resolved it for me. I have since figured out how to do a manual child theme.

Thank you for the help above, WPYogi and Orbisius. Sorry to bother you, Siobhan. You looked to be so helpful to someone with a similar problem. I didn’t think it would hurt to reach out. Like many people that post here, I am learning not only about web development, but the social dynamics of this community.

I am very interested in the error log file(s).
Can you request them from your hosting company?
When you have the file(s) you can zip it/them and upload the archive to dropbox and send me a download link via http://orbisius.com/contact/

Sorry to bother you, Siobhan. You looked to be so helpful to someone with a similar problem. I didn’t think it would hurt to reach out. Like many people that post here, I am learning not only about web development, but the social dynamics of this community.

You didn’t bother me, sorry to call you out like that. It’s just better to post your problems here so that everyone can benefit from their solution. 🙂

The opacity is set in the functions.php file. This should be moved to the css file and there should be a settings panel in the wordpress admin that easily let’s someone set their starting site wide opacity. In this case the default is .2 and .3 in the functions.php file. I changed mine to .7 and .7 and am now very happy with the theme.

Its really not resolved and that’s my point. The opacity issues should not be in the functions file. Reading these threads about this issue, not once does someone point out that the site wide opacity code lives in the functions file. I finally figured it out on my own and I am pointing it out for others so they don’t have to be as frustrated by thus misplacement as I was.